More Snow from day to day, though the
temperature is up in comparison.

Ure Brothers had to lay off sawing
longs. The snow in the woods is so deep that horses can
hardly get through the snow.

Mrs. John Duffy died Friday and was
buried Tuesday. She was formerly Mrs. Madler, mother of John,
Peter and Joe Madler, Mrs. Walter Schmitz, Mrs. Chas.
Schuster. She has been ailing more or less during the last
year of her life.

Carl Singer from Rockham, N.D. is
visiting with his brother Wm. and his other relatives at
present.

Mrs. Carl Mundt passed away Monday
evening after a short sickness, having reached the ripe age of 78
½ years. The funeral will be held Friday afternoon at
the M.E. Church here. She was well esteemed by all who came
in contact with her, and as she lived here with her husband for a
good many years, the number of her friends is large and her
departure is mourned by all.

There is much talk at present about
patriotism, that sometimes some of our citizens would like to know
in what way real patriotism will show itself. Is it the man
that blindly follows the crowd or the person that uses judgment and
discernment in his course of action. Is real patriotism tied
down to a certain language or to a certain line of
descendants? Can a citizen be a patriot who happens to
descend from French, Austrian, Italian or German ancestry? Or
has it got to be from our mother country as some of our people call
it, though our mother has been pretty much of a step-mother
according to history and recollection of some of our older citizens
in the sense implied. Is a real patriot the man that blindly
rushes into danger, thereby making it possible to embroil our
country with some foreign country, or the man that picks out a path
that providence shows to lead clear and free of any possible
trouble? Of course we claim and ought to have the freedom of
the seas, but in troubled times like the present, is it not more
patriotic to avoid the danger spots? Just as much as it would
be unwise to go right into the midst of a howling fighting mob of
big dogs, though I have the right to travel the highways.